What Fiction are you reading this week, May 28, 2023?

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16. The People of the Book Geraldine Brooks

I started it last week but have not gotten very far into it.

n 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding—an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—she begins to unlock the book’s mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book’s journey from its salvation back to its creation.

Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is at once a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity, an ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed and beloved author.

Didn't read much last week; I was working my annual stint at the Charles Schwab Invitational golf tournament. (it is the longest running tournament on the PGA tour that has been held at the same location - this year was the 77th tournament.)

SO for 4 days I was working from 7 am until around 6 or 6:30. I have a fun job so it is worth it. (but I was exhausted today)!